About

Experience from years at Microsoft and the tech industry.

Translating between the technical and business domains.

Rob Bearman

Founder and CEO

Rob is the founder and CEO of Hyperfine. Rob is an experienced
technical and strategic leader who brings a nuanced and wise understanding
of markets and technologies, with an eye toward high level systems
integration. He has led software development
teams, mentored and empowered engineers, and participated in a vast
number of technology areas over the course of his thirty-plus-year
career.

Rob was a technical lead in the Windows group at Microsoft, helping
to define new user interfaces such as the taskbar and desktop for
Windows NT and Windows 95. He led the development team designing
the prototype for Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition, integrating
for the first time music, movies, games, and digital television on a
single system. He was also an expert in the design and implementation
of Microsoft's Component Object Model.

As the founder of Hyperfine, Rob was a trusted and valued consultant partner
for companies including Qualcomm and Microsoft. He developed a mobile
location-based platform incorporating realtime maps and GPS tracking
years before the iPhone made its appearance.

Rob built commercial mobile applications for Android and iOS devices
under the Hyperfine brand. He has designed phone-based voice
interfaces using VoiceXML and SQL Server data stores. He is an
expert in web technologies, including web components, node.js,
and MongoDB-driven backend systems. He is currently focused on
building a map-based platform for the publishing and consumption of
social media content.

Rob holds a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy from the University of
California, Berkeley, and a Master's degree in Education from
Stanford University.